Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system

• US 8,161,511 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2008
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kwak, Min Sung, Choi, In Hwan, Lee, Chul Soo, Song, Jae Hyung, Shin, Pil Sup
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirl, Joseph P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Peng, Fred
• Application Number:
  US12/197,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055872A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,334 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/414 Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64315 DVB-H
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/38 Transmitter circuitry for the transmission of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control

Abstract

A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes a reception unit for receiving a broadcast signal which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, an extractor for extracting transmission parameter channel signaling information and fast information channel signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, an acquirer for acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and a service of an ensemble, using the extracted fast information channel signaling information, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, a detector for detecting a descriptor defining additional information of an image file, using the acquired program table, and a controller for controlling such that the image file is displayed, based on the additional information of the detected descriptor.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting a broadcast signal in a transmitter, the method comprising:

multiplexing mobile data and main data; and

transmitting a transmission frame including the multiplexed mobile and main data,

wherein a parade of data groups is transmitted during slots within the transmission frame, the slots being basic time periods for multiplexing of the mobile data and the main data,

wherein the data groups include the mobile data, signaling information and known data sequences,

wherein the signaling information includes fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes binding information between a service of the mobile data and an ensemble, and the TPC data indicates a version of the FIC data,

wherein the FIC data includes an FIC data header and an FIC data payload having information identifying the ensemble, and the FIC data is divided into a plurality of FIC segments, and each of the plurality of FIC segments, including an FIC segment header and an FIC segment payload, is transmitted in each of the data groups,

wherein the FIC segment header includes information indicating a number of a corresponding FIC segment and information indicating a number of a last FIC segment of the FIC data,

wherein the ensemble includes the service and a signaling table describing the service, and

wherein the ensemble is RS-CRC (Reed Solomon-cyclic redundancy check) encoded through a 2-dimensional Reed-Solomon (RS) frame, and each row of a payload of the RS frame includes a transport packet of the mobile data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the signaling table is identified from a different signaling table by using a table_id field and a table_id_extension field in a table section header of the signaling table.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the signaling table includes a service map table (SMT) which provides IP address information and IP component level information for the service.

4. A method of receiving a broadcast signal in a receiver, the method comprising:

receiving a broadcast signal including a transmission frame, wherein a parade of data groups in the broadcast signal is received during slots within the transmission frame, the slots being basic time periods for multiplexing of mobile data and main data, and

wherein the data groups include the mobile data, signaling information and known data sequences;

demodulating the broadcast signal and obtaining fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes binding information between a service of the mobile data and an ensemble, and the TPC data indicates a version of the FIC data,

wherein the FIC data includes an FIC data header and an FIC data payload having information identifying the ensemble, and the FIC data is divided into a plurality of FIC segments, and each of the plurality of the FIC segments, including an FIC segment header and an FIC segment payload, is received in each of the data groups,

wherein the FIC segment header includes information indicating a number of a corresponding FIC segment and information indicating a number of a last FIC segment of the FIC data, and

wherein the ensemble includes the service and a signaling table describing the service;

building a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame corresponding to the ensemble by collecting a plurality of data portions to which the data groups are mapped,

wherein the RS frame is a 2-dimensional data frame through which the ensemble is RS-CRC (Reed Solomon-cyclic redundancy check) encoded, and each row of a payload of the RS frame includes a transport packet of the mobile data; and

decoding the RS frame.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the signaling table is identified from a different signaling table by using a table_id field and a table_id_extension field in a table section header of the signaling table.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the signaling table includes a service map table (SMT) which provides IP address information and IP component level information for the service.

7. An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal, the apparatus comprising:

a multiplexer configured to multiplex mobile data and main data; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit a transmission frame including the multiplexed mobile and main data,

wherein a parade of data groups is transmitted during slots within the transmission frame, the slots being basic time periods for multiplexing of the mobile data and the main data,

wherein the data groups include the mobile data, signaling information and known data sequences,

wherein the signaling information includes fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes binding information between a service of the mobile data and an ensemble, and the TPC data indicating indicates a version of the FIC data,

wherein the FIC data includes an FIC data header and an FIC data payload having information identifying the ensemble, and the FIC data is divided into a plurality of FIC segments, and each of the plurality of the FIC segments, including an FIC segment header and an FIC segment payload, is transmitted in each of the data groups,

wherein the FIC segment header includes information indicating a number of a corresponding FIC segment and information indicating a number of a last FIC segment of the FIC data,

wherein the ensemble includes the service and a signaling table describing the service, and

wherein the ensemble is RS-CRC (Reed Solomon-cyclic redundancy check) encoded through a 2-dimensional Reed-Solomon (RS) frame, and each row of a payload of the RS frame includes a transport packet of the mobile data.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the signaling table is identified from a different signaling table by using a table_id field and a table_id_extension field in a table section header of the signaling table.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the signaling table includes a service map table (SMT) which provides IP address information and IP component level information for the service.

10. An apparatus for receiving a broadcast signal, the apparatus comprising:

a tuner configured to receive a broadcast signal including a transmission frame, wherein a parade of data groups in the broadcast signal is received during slots within the transmission frame, the slots being basic time periods for multiplexing of mobile data and main data, and

wherein the data groups include the mobile data, signaling information and known data sequences;

a demodulator configured to demodulate the broadcast signal and obtain fast information channel (FIC) data and transmission parameter channel (TPC) data, wherein the FIC data includes binding information between a service of the mobile data and an ensemble, and the TPC data indicates a version of the FIC data,

wherein the FIC data includes an FIC data header and an FIC data payload having information identifying the ensemble, and the FIC data is divided into a plurality of FIC segments, and each of the plurality of the FIC segments, including an FIC segment header and an FIC segment payload, is received in each of the data groups,

wherein the FIC segment header includes information indicating a number of a corresponding FIC segment and information indicating a number of a last FIC segment of the FIC data, and

wherein the ensemble includes the service and a signaling table describing the service; and

an RS frame decoder configured to build a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame corresponding to the ensemble by collecting a plurality of data portions which are mapped to the data groups, and decode the RS frame,

wherein the RS frame is a 2-dimensional data frame through which the ensemble is RS-CRC (Reed Solomon-cyclic redundancy check) encoded, and each row of a payload of the RS frame includes a transport packet of the mobile data.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the signaling table is identified from a different signaling table by using a table_id field and a table_id_extension field in a table section header of the signaling table.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the signaling table includes a service map table (SMT) which provides IP address information and IP component level information for the service.